Los Angeles Times, November 8, 2011 by Alexa Vaughn
http://www.latimes.com/health/la-fi-tobacco-judge-20111108,0,6289018.story
“You can’t force a company to carry the government’s opinion on an issue,” Wheaton said. “These images are clearly not limited to a statement of fact. They’re designed to evoke an emotional response.”
KPCC-FM, Air Talk, November 8, 2011 Host Larry Mantle
http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/2011/11/08/21307/how-young-is-too-you
“There is an emerging consensus around the country that this is cruel and unusual punishment. Even where it’s authorized by statute, it almost is never done, which is the definition of ‘unusual.’ Second, the US is almost alone around the world in using punishment like this for children. So, there is an international emerging sense of decency that needs to be considered.”
National Public Radio, November 7, 2011 by Scott Neuman
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/07/142102081/occupy-presents-big-problems-for-big-city-mayors
“There are political questions to be answered here about how municipalities and their police forces weigh not only the interests in public safety but also their interests in maintaining public order and access to public spaces,” Sklansky says.
Los Angeles Times, November 7, 2011 by Carol J. Williams
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-search-seizure-20111107,0,1838488.story
The Supreme Court’s 5-4 majority of Republican-appointed justices tends to support law enforcement over privacy protection, and the 9th Circuit, although still dominated by appointees of Democratic presidents, has seen its liberal majority diluted by more moderate nominations by President Clinton and stalwart conservatives named to the court by President George W. Bush, Choper said.
The Spokesman-Review, November 6, 2011 by Becky Kramer
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2011/nov/06/private-land-public-battle/
“The fact that the Supreme Court decided to take this case suggests that at least four members of the court think that the circuit courts are getting it wrong,” she said.
New York Post, November 5, 2011 by Franklin E. Zimring
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/big_bite_out_of_crime_OqiIVfwn0Fp2S3NVkUNWiK
The impulses that produce muggings are situational and contingent and that means the short-term interventions can have long-term consequences for crime rates.
The Boston Globe, November 4, 2011 by Alex Beam
http://articles.boston.com/2011-11-04/lifestyle/30360333_1_john-yoo-law-professor-war-crimes
“Killing an American citizen with a drone missile without any effort to arrest him and without any imminent threat of attack on the US seems to me a far worse deprivation of civil liberties than waterboarding three undisputed top Al Qaeda leaders.”
LSAT Blog, November 3, 2011 by Steve Schwartz
http://lsatblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/berkeley-law-school-admissions-dean.html
If there are other valid measurements of success in the profession—something the LSAT does not predict at all—then these tools should be considered for the future.
The New York Times, November 2, 2011 by Ian Haney-López
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/opinion/a-new-way-to-achieve-civil-rights.html
Today’s narrow focus on isolated victims, rightly decried by Mr. Ford, does not reflect a failure of vision by civil rights leaders. Instead, it stems from four decades of efforts by conservative judges and justices (reflecting the preferences of the politicians who appointed them) to restrictively construe civil rights laws to ensure that they challenge discrimination barely at all.
-POLITICO Pro, November 1, 2011 by Michelle Quinn
https://www.politicopro.com (registration required; go to H:\Law School in the News\In the News 2011\News Clips for article)
“Parents are very concerned about privacy and Internet safety but they don’t want age-based restrictions as part of the approach,” he said. “We say that there should be privacy protections, but they shouldn’t be based on any demographic or category for age.”
-San Francisco Chronicle, November 3, 2011 by Amy Graff
http://blog.sfgate.com/sfmoms/2011/11/03/millions-of-parents-lie-to-let-kids-join-facebook/
“Overwhelmingly, parents believe that they should have the final say about what their child can do online,” the study authors wrote. “When asked who should have final say about whether or not their child should be able to access online services, 93 percent of parents indicated that they themselves should.”